Tag Archives: self-made-tools

Advanced scripting – changing the UID of a user

25/11/2009 – 15:29

At one of our customer we will have an monstre’ UID-consolidation projekt in the near future. For this purpose I’ve written a script to enlighten our task. Most of you thinks at it a an over-complicated (usermod && find …. chown …) job, but my script has undergone some performance optimisation too: it starts parallel [...]

By Viktor Balogh | Posted in Languages and Scripting | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

Loadbalancing VGs manually

02/05/2009 – 17:05

Yes, I know that HP-UX 11i v3 is capable of native multipathing by default, but not every customer can afford the expenses and risks to migrating to a newer OS. So here are a few sample scripts just to show how you can automatize the hard work of doing repeatly vgreduce/vgextend to organize the paths [...]

By Viktor Balogh | Posted in LVM and VxVM | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (2)